2-3 December 2025
Tokyo
14:15 – 14:35
Silicon Photonic Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) for AI Networks
Optical circuit switching (OCS) is essential for resolving network bottlenecks in AI supercomputing, offering a high-speed, reconfigurable interconnect with ultra-low latency for data-intensive workloads. Current 3D free-space OCS systems used by hyperscalers are bulky and expensive. Fully integrated 2D OCS provides a path to drastically cut size, cost, and energy consumption while simultaneously boosting switching speed. This talk presents a novel, 2D silicon photonic OCS. We integrate micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) actuators with silicon photonics to physically move optical waveguides, a technique particularly effective for high-radix OCS designs.

Ming Wu, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley
Ming C. Wu is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of nEye.ai and the Nortel Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.S. from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1988.
Dr. Wu started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, then moved to UCLA in 1993, and returned to his alma mater, UC Berkeley, in 2004. A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded two companies prior to nEye.ai: Berkeley Lights (Nasdaq: BLI) and Optical Micro-Machine (OMM).
UC Berkeley
Company Profile
A wellspring of innovation, the school occupies a 1,232-acre campus near downtown Berkeley. UC Berkeley, also known as Cal, was established in 1868 as the flagship of today’s 10-campus University of California.
